Environment
Mountains of waste could lead to new US manufacturing, jobs
17 May 2017
Waste material from the paper and pulp industry soon could be made into anything from tennis rackets to cars, bringing agriculture production and industry together in a bio economy making renewable products
Diesels pollute more than lab tests detect
16 May 2017
Essar Steel develops eco-friendly sand from slag
08 May 2017
Not even the Himalayas are immune to traffic smog
03 May 2017
Geologists find high sulphur pollution along on one of the most remote mountain roads in the world — the Manali-Leh Highway — suggesting a link to diesel pollution
Long-term fate of tropical forests may not be as dire as believed, says CU Boulder study
02 May 2017
Food webs entangle humans, animals, crops and the environment
By By A'ndrea Elyse Messer | 24 Apr 2017
What people plant and eat has a great effect on the environment and on ecosystems. In the end, those choices will impact human survival
Apple to go green, use only 100% recycled materials
21 Apr 2017
‘We're actually doing something we rarely do, which is announce a goal before we've completely figured out how to do it,’ the technology giant said ahead of Earth Day
BP working to control damaged oil well in Alaska
17 Apr 2017
The world's most spoken language is...'Terpene'
15 Apr 2017
Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow
13 Apr 2017
On a global level, the connection between national wealth and carbon emissions, which has been well-documented, shows carbon emissions are higher where income is more highly concentrated among the wealthiest residents
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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